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Pacific Street & Schenectady Avenue, Brooklyn

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  • Brooklyn: Pacific Street - Schenectady Avenue, 1940

    Brooklyn: Pacific Street - Schenectady Avenue

    1940

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Photos: The New York Public Library, Milstein Collection

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Brooklyn: Pacific Street - Schenectady Avenue, 1940

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Brooklyn: Pacific Street - Schenectady Avenue

1940

1711 Pacific Street, at the N. W. corner of Schenectady Avenue (right), showing the Sterling Cake Company factory. September 12, 1940 P. L. Sperr

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